“The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.”

— Eric Voegelin

Eric Voegelin (1987), The New Science of Politics: An Introduction, ISBN 0226861147, p. 120

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American philosopher 1901–1985

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